In a story about how the president of Iran couldn’t take a joke and cracked down on SMS:

The clampdown is in line with the authorities’ uncompromising stance on the internet and bloggers. Wary of modern communications as a means of spreading political dissent, Iran is second only to China in the number of websites it filters – using technology made in America.

Heard the one about the president? Robert Tait in Tehran, ndFriday April 14, 2006, The Guardian

I wonder if it’s the same U.S. technology China is using?

-jsq